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Lufthansa has offered to increase the pilots’ pay by 4.4 percent in two instalments and make a one-off payment worth 1.8 months’ pay. VC wants an average annual pay rise of 3.7 percent for 5,400 pilots over a five-year period backdated to 2012.

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VC rejected the latest pay offer from Lufthansa late on Friday and has also rebuffed a bid for mediation.

“For mediation you need an offer that can be the basis of negotiations,” VC board member Alexander Gerhard-Madjidi told Deutschlandfunk radio on Tuesday. “Lufthansa has not made such an offer.”